WILD TWIN SERENA WE'RE JUST SO EXCITED!
Woman’s Day Magazine NZ|August 28, 2023
After a devastating miscarriage, TV star Serena and her hubby Atoni can't wait to meet their baby girl
Hayley McLarin
WILD TWIN SERENA WE'RE JUST SO EXCITED!

When the image on the sonographer's screen wouldn't keep still long enough to take a clear picture, it made Serena Shine and her husband Atoni Toleafoa beam.

It would seem the little girl they are having is going to be just like her active mum.

Serena, one of New Zealand's famous Wild Twins, wants her daughter to be as independent and adventurous as she was from a very early age.

"I just want her to go out and give things a go, exactly how I was brought up. If you prefer more girly things, that's totally fine. And if not, that's also totally fine too, just as long as you try things." Serena and her twin Amber, 32, are known for their adventurous go-get-'em lifestyle, and their love for hunting, fishing and spending time in the wild, having appeared on TV shows Naked And Afraid and First Man Out.

However, that lifestyle had to take a backseat for Serena when she found out about her pregnancy because, sadly, she had just lost a baby at an early stage.

"We had a bit of a rocky start with the first try - a miscarriage when I was six weeks pregnant," she confides.

"That makes the second time around a bit scarier.

"We were just so excited and so amped up, so it hit hard a little bit, but we're super-stoked for the second time around, and she is all-go and healthy." Serena and Atoni were on a three-month trip across South America and Mexico last year when they decided on an impromptu wedding. They came back to New Zealand "on a big high" and decided they wanted to start trying for a baby. However, they had to wait three months because they had travelled through places with potential Zika virus, which can cause brain damage in babies during pregnancy.

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